Artificially Cultivated Ophiocordyceps sinensis Alleviates Diabetic Nephropathy and Its Podocyte Injury via Inhibiting P2X7R Expression and NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

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Artificially cultivated Ophiocordyceps sinensis (ACOS). Ophiocordyceps sinensis is a fungus-caterpillar complex formed after the fungus infects the larva of the moth that belongs to Hepialidae. The black part of the complex is the fungal part that is called the fruiting body and consists of stromatophore and stroma; the yellowish-brown part is the dead larva body that is filled with mycelia, called the sclerotium. The Ophiocordyceps sinensis in this photo is the ACOS, which has been produced through industrialized artificial cultivation in China now.